Lesssons From Italy Part 2 – Monday October 5

I have been to Italy many times and am forever charmed by the local fashion. I was worried that with the success of the European Union would come watering down of Italian style. My first day in Rome I was saddened to discover that men no longer wore skin tight pants, but delighted to see that they had adopted red and pink pants with a passion previously reserved for sculpted facial hair. Everything will be ok, indeed.

Ladies: I hope you are prepared for sequined everything, because that’s what’s the gals are rocking over here.

Lesssons From Italy Part 1 – Friday October 2

Today I learned that a Valium is no match for three women sitting next to you who are on their way to their first trip to Italy together and are baffled by the chocolate croissant that comes with the airplane breakfast. It was easier to take my headphones off and explain (with a smile of course) that it is a croissant with chocolate in the middle. I might have been inclined to guzzle wine and curse quietly at them, but it wasn’t worth it. Instead I remembered that I was on my way to a country that requires great courage, patience, and a joy for life. So I also told them that the pink stuff in the breakfast sandwich was bacon.

PLM Goes Abroad – Thursday October 1st

100_0325The Roommate and I are leaving the country together. While we adventure our way through Rome and Venice, I will strive to keep my many rapid fans up to date on my activities and observations. I plan on photographing pigeons who speak Italian and meatballs in their native country. Assuming that Sweden is not the meatball country of origin. I’ll look that up later.

 

If you have any immediate questions about our travels or non-Americans, please email advice@poorluckyme.com. I want to address all my readers’ concerns.

 

Wednesday, September 30th

2886244060_a598a25abfDear Poor Lucky Me,

 

Do you think it is still so bad-ass to climb Mt. Everest? Now there are Sherpas setting lines ahead of the climbers and is seems like all you need now is enough money and time to do it. There is even a T.V. show about it. And if memory serves, Homer Simpson made it to the top.

 

I know that it is still balls cold up there and all, but I think that guy who ran a marathon in stilts accomplished a more impressive feat.

 

Total time was 8 hours, 57 minutes and 58 seconds.

 

Signed,

Now that Swayze is gone, who will be our tough guy?

 


Dear Tough Guy,

 

I don’t think anyone will ever replace Swayze as the sexiest danciest manliest tough guy to live. Our world is a little less colorful without him in it.

 

But, I promise you, climbing Mount Everest is still badass. Seriously. I mean, it’s so badass that I have to yell “badass” every time I type it. The marathon was an admirable, incredible accomplishment. Mount Everest will kill you. Plus, you don’t know how horrible it is until you bought all the equipment and got all the way to Napal and climbed for days to get to the base camp…you can’t just stay “ahh this sucks. I’ll be at Starbucks.” A big part of being badass is doing stuff you can’t easily back out of.

 

Additionally, I think it’s bogus that just because a really hard thing is made slightly easier people act like it’s not a big deal anymore. Like in college, when I took the class “Erroneous Beliefs and How We Maintain Them” and everyone acted like it was the easiest math requirement just because we always used a calculator. Well let me tell you: if you don’t put all the right numbers and symbols in the calculator, it doesn’t work. Math is hard not matter how many gadgets you can use.

 

Sincerely,
Poor Lucky Me

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